Regardless of which organization you join, NRA or GOA, join one or both. Gun owners need to get vocal and exercise our considerable economic power against businesses that spit on our rights.

Letters to the editor, physical and online, letters, emails, and calls to our congresscritters, municipal meetings and such all need to be used.

The time for live and let live (so to speak) is over. We need to find a method for holding persons who attack our rights accountable. Whether that is politically or economically I really don’t have a preference.

We need to use any method that will work IMO.

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posted on 12/19/2012 9:21:55 AM PST
by txnativegop
(Fed up with zealots)

Sounds like we need another march on Washington. We need more than 5000 of us to show up this time. We also need to ban “Gun Free Zones”. Most of the gun control make me feel good idiots with laws that do not work will not put these signs in their yard so why would they put them where our kids go to school. That sign did not deter that psyco path the other day.

From the estimates that I have heard that there are 80 to 100 million gun owners in America, the fact that there are only about 4.5 to 5 million that support gun advocacy groups disappoints me. If our rights are eroded its the gun owner not the groups that have allowed it.

If 80 to 100 million gun owners belonged to gun groups you would not hear a peep out of these politicians.

For the $35 you also receive a ton of junk mail about twice a week from the NRA asking for more money they seem to spend allot on trying to get into you wallet. It has to be costing a small fortune for the mail outs and printing.Maybe they can cut out the junk mail and have enough without asking for more more more.

Regardless of which organization you join, NRA or GOA, join one or both. Gun owners need to get vocal and exercise our considerable economic power against businesses that spit on our rights.

Letters to the editor, physical and online, letters, emails, and calls to our congresscritters, municipal meetings and such all need to be used.

The time for live and let live (so to speak) is over. We need to find a method for holding persons who attack our rights accountable. Whether that is politically or economically I really dont have a preference.

We need to use any method that will work IMO.

Hard to say it any better than that. We need to be vocal and bring big numbers to the table and we need to do that now.

And fwiw, you can get the NRA membership for $25 on Tom Gresham's GunTalk site. Link's at the bottom of the page. Go hit it.

You just gave money to the company that wrote and supported every major gun control law on the books and many that got shot down. That’s right, the NRA wrote and supported the 1934 NFA and the 1968 GCA and other laws.

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posted on 12/19/2012 11:36:41 AM PST
by CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)

You just gave money to the company that wrote and supported every major gun control law on the books and many that got shot down. Thats right, the NRA wrote and supported the 1934 NFA and the 1968 GCA and other laws.

Total horsesh*t and a red herring - The NRA was forcibly restructured under Neal Knox and Harlon Carter in 1977 expressly because of the previous organizational leadership's support for gun restrictions.

The modern NRA-ILA has nothing in commmon with the pre-1977 version except the name.

We are teaching ladies to shoot in lots of different places. Nancy in South Dakota has taught literally hundreds in the past several months. She is our ladies’ learn to shoot class “queen”—LOL!

We hold these classes in Texas, Tennessee, Massachusetts and several other places around the country—where we have state coordinators. We usually charge $35 for these one on one classes, and that includes a one yr. membership in our organization.

In most states, we are able to get the range, NRA qualified trainers and ammo donated. Then we get the loan of lots of different handguns so each lady can try out several guns and find the best one for her. One of the biggest mistakes a woman can make is to buy a gun without trying it out. If it’s wrong for her, she might can return it, but usually she takes a big loss, because now it is a “used” gun.

Of course we aren’t yet the NRA, but our membership is really growing, and most members renew every year.

We have quite a few males members also—we don’t discriminate. Of course, they don’t have voting privileges, but that doesn’t seem to matter to them.

We also offer family memberships for $50 no matter how many are in the family.

We put out a very nice Newsletter 3 or 4 times a year and mail them out to all our members.

The other way we are different from the NRA is that we do not spam your mail box asking for donations. We have had 2 fund raising letters in our 12 year history. About the only snail mail a member receives from us is once a year we send out renewal letters.

We are all volunteers and work mainly in cyberspace. There are no big salaries in this organization.

Our purpose is to do our part to help save the 2A. The more women we train to shoot, the more they will work on the effort to save our rights.

That’s total horsesh*t! Same company but they reforged so they are let off the hook??!! When the NRA fights to repeal the NFA and GCA let us know but until then they are still responsible for their actions. What an idiot you must be to fall for some bz like that.

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posted on 12/19/2012 1:00:16 PM PST
by CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)

After being a gun owner for many, many, years and not being a member of the NRA, I finally joined last year. Almost immediately I received unsolicited merchandise from them in the form of a DVD. I had decided not to be inconvenienced by sending it back since I didn’t ask to be sent it in the first place. That resulted in a series of nagging letters asking for payment. Sleazy practices like that really irk me. I eventually did send it back, but I decided that I would not renew and didn’t renew when I got my renewal notice a couple of weeks ago. I’ll probably end up joining the GOA.

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posted on 12/19/2012 4:37:27 PM PST
by FreedomForce
(Living in the Age of American Soft Despotism)

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